2090 ARTICLE 9.

sale of personal property thei treasurer shall pay all costs and expense
incident to such sale, and the taxes in arrears thereon and interest, and
the surplus, if any, he shall pay over to such delinquent taxpayer. And
any sale or sales of personal property made under the provisions of this
section shall be reported by the treasurer to the Circuit Court of Charles
County, in the same way that a sheriff's sale is reported, within thirty
days from said sale showing to whom, and at what price, the articles of
personal property were respectively sold, the amount of taxes and of
interest accrued and costs of said sale.

1906, chs. 760, 817, sec. 10. 1908, ch. 509, sec. 10 (p. 730).
1910, ch. 354 (p. 745), sec. 10.

95. The passage of this Act shall in no way interfere with the rights
and duties of collectors of taxes appointed under the law in existence
previous to the passage of Chapter 199 of the Acts of 1904, and the pro-
visions of Article 81 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
title "Revenue and Taxes," and all amendments to the same relating to
the duties, compensation or remedies of collectors or proceedings entered
against them or their bonds, except to the extent that it may be repealed
by Chapter 199 of the Acts of 1904, and the provisions of this Act, and
this Act shall continue in full force and be applicable, as far as prac-
ticable, to the office of treasurer hereby created; provided, however, that
all sales made by the treasurer as hereinbefore provided, on any one day
or series of days, shall be reported to the Circuit Court for Charles County
for ratification ask one time and in one paper, to be docketed by the court
as in one case, after which there shall be published, in the same news-
papers that published the tax sales, an order nisi, setting forth, in sub-
stance, that unless any of the persons whose lands were sold (giving the
name of delinquents without any description of property) shall show
cause to the contrary within the time named therein (not less than twenty
nor more than thirty days from date; of the first publication), the sale
shall be ratified and confirmed; and said order shall be published by at
least three weekly insertions in said newspapers, the cost thereof to each
newspaper publishing the same shall be twenty-five cents per name, and
at the end of that time, if no cause shall be shown, the sale shall be ratified
and confirmed by the court, an appeal to be allowed, however, to the
esceptant to the Court of Appeals of this State within thirty days from
the time of the decision of the Circuit Court. The reports of said sales
shall be amendable in the discretion of the court to conform to the facts
in any matter set forth therein, and no sale shall be set aside if the
requirements of the law shall be substantially complied with, nor for any
matter of mere form; when such sale shall be finally ratified, the pur-
chasers shall, upon payment of the purchase money, have a good title to
the property sold, and if the said ratification shall be made by the court
after exceptions filed by any one interested in the property sold, the
ratification of the sale, subject to the appeal as aforesaid, shall be con-
clusive as to the regularity of the sale, except in a court of equity upon